Re: bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

2018-02-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 06:12:31PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > ... > > We seem to be oscillating on the question of whether to graft these > early GLIBCs. In June 2017, I switched to using 'package/inherit' here > in commit 13f7f2fd2b208c29361ef2290f55911879a6adf2, and in

Re: bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

2018-02-21 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Here’s a patch to graft the glibc to apply the patch to allow the 2.6.32 >> kernel. I’m going to apply this at work now. > > That patch had a couple of problems.

Re: bug#30537: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

2018-02-20 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:46:02PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I have a bad day. After the upgrade to glibc 2.26 none of the > Guix-installed software runs on the HPC cluster running CentOS 6.8. > > The glibc 2.26 expects a minimum kernel version of 3.x on x86_64, but > CentOS